Frank Capra Quotes

To know one thing, you must know the opposite.

Excess generally causes reaction, and produces a change in the opposite direction, whether it be in the seasons, or in individuals, or in governments.

I am not by any means a philosopher, although I have worked with some talented people in the discipline. But certain philosophical concepts deeply inform the way I think about the world. The idea of 'opposing truths at extremes' is a powerful concept that I came to appreciate in my twenties.

Almost every wise saying has an opposite one, no less wise, to balance it.

What is down will go up. At the same time, you have to be prepared for what is up to go down.

Every side of a coin has another side.

God is day and night, winter and summer, war and peace, surfeit and hunger.

I think that the pendulum will swing back to the other side one day.

Life and death. They are somehow sweetly and beautifully mixed, but I don't know how.

Everything contains its antithesis.

Everything about me is a contradiction, and so is everything about everybody else. We are made out of oppositions; we live between two poles. There's a philistine and an aesthete in all of us, and a murderer and a saint. You don't reconcile the poles. You just recognize them.

Out of all things bad, something good. Out of all things good, something bad.

The reverse side also has a reverse side.

The pendulum will swing back.

Life is full of contrasts.

I always loved playing extreme opposites, whether it's internal or external.

Where there's love, there's hate; where there's positivity, there's ignorance.

There's light and dark in all things, you know?

It was a quality of my childhood that everything had these two sides. Even though things could be really beautiful and peaceful one moment, they could also be a bit chaotic or maybe terrifying in another.

This place was truly the highest and the lowest of all worlds - the most beautiful senses, the most exquisite emotions.. the most malevolent desires, the darkest deeds. Perhaps it was meant to be so. Perhaps without the lows, the highs could not be reached.

The full he empties, and the empty he fills.

There is apparently no surer way of turning a thing into its opposite than by exaggerating it

Beware of organizations that proclaim their devotion to the light without embracing, bowing to the dark; for when they idealize half the world they must devalue the rest.

Inconsistency is my very essence; it is the game I never cease to play as I turn my wheel in its ever changing circle, filled with joy as I bring the top to the bottom and the bottom to the top

The unifying of opposites is the eternal process.